Month: September 2025

China has been hoarding copper for months. And the rest of the world are dedicating ourselves to look

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After the Rare earthChina has made copper its new geopolitical weapon. It only produces 4% of world reserves, but already controls 49% of the world refining and is buying raw materials at an industrial scale. Why is it important. More than accumulating raw materials, China is building an intentional bottleneck in the most strategic metal supply chain of the 21st century. Copper is indispensable for AI data centers, electric cars, solar panels and electrical networks. Who controls your refining will control the technological transition worldwide. In figures. The numbers are overwhelming: This mathematics is only possible to buy into mass abroad: import minerals from Chile and Peru, and junk of the United States. Then he processes everything in its low -cost melters. The general panoramic. The Chinese strategy shows sophistication that goes far beyond commercial opportunism. He has created a refining infrastructure distributed throughout the country (Jiangxi, Anhui, Guangxi, Shandong, Jiangsu) that can process any type of copper mineral at prices that no competitor can match. USA is exporting concentrates and scrap metalbut it does not have that refining capacity. Instead, China imports them, processes and turns finished products. Between the lines. He Timing This accumulation is not accidental. It coincides with the escalation of commercial tensions with the United States and the strategic approach to Afghanistan, which has large copper deposits. For China, controlling copper refining is an insurance policy in the face of a possible naval block of its commercial routes with Chile, Peru and Australia. Afghanistan thus becomes its only safe terrestrial source of copper. Yes, but. This strategy has a hidden cost that is already being manifested. Chinese foundations operate with negative margins due to the scarcity of copper ore and excess refining capacity. Some have already closed or suspended operations. The Syomine company has paralyzed its Namibia plantGlencore closed its foundry of the Philippines. China is paying a high economic price to maintain its dominant position. At stake. The commercial war is spreading to copper. Mexico has imposed 50% tariffs on Chinese products After Trump’s pressures, and China has threatened with reprisals. Mexico contributes 5% of Chinese copper mineral imports. If China cuts these imports, Southern Copper and the entire Mexican sector will suffer. But China needs each ton of available mineral. The money trail. Investors They have put 2.3 billion dollars in copper funds this year45% more than in 2024. They recognize the obvious: there is scarcity and China controls the refining tap. Accumulating copper is also a financial commitment in a deficit market. China has played a master letter. He turned his lack of own deposits in industrial domain: controls the refining, the link that adds the most value. But it has an Achilles heel that is to depend on importing minerals from countries that can become enemies. It is the dilemma of power in a fractured world: you need those who can betray you. In Xataka | Baidu is no longer satisfied with being the Chinese Google. His new AI model also wants to turn it into China Openai Outstanding image | Joanna Kosinska

“Maximum extraordinarily high temperatures for this time”

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After one of the hottest summers that are rememberedthe arrival of Dynamics of meteorological autumn It was literally a “fresh air breath.” Therefore, many have begun to ask ourselves if we could take the summer dead, start getting the bedspreads and keeping the controls of the air conditioners. And for our tranquility, Aemet He has just responded To our questions: or by chance. As? To be precise, what Aemet tells us is that “the temperatures planned at about 1500 m altitude will become higher in the next few days than any record of the 1991-2020 reference period for these dates.” That is, everything seems to indicate that “the mass of air on Spain will be extraordinarily warm.” Since approximately, on September 10, temperatures have been rising throughout Spain. As they pointed out at the time“We will talk about a clearly summery environment, with August temperatures.” And, although the worst forecasts were not fulfilled, “of the 30 degrees They will not go down in a few days. ” We can’t say it’s a surprise … Although it has been A rare year at the weather level (As already We have discovered in the worst possible way) There is something that we have learned over the last years and that we should not forget: heat every time comes before (“Between three and four weeks In almost the whole country “) and leaves later. With the only exception of the city of Alicante, summer It has lengthened in each and every of the provincial capitals of the country. In some more than a month. And that, of course, has its most direct correlation in medium temperatures well above of what was normal in the previous decades. However, it is a surprise. If the forecasts are fulfilled, in many areas of the country the days They will be surprisingly warm For these dates of the year. And not, We are not talking about the “Veranillo de San Miguel”. Unless we are willing to recognize that what we have been calling for years is nothing more than a way to normalize that is getting hotter. What can we expect? In principle, from Monday to Friday We can expect A “full summer environment with extraordinarily high temperatures for this time.” The only exception will be the Peninsular Northeast, which will contain the climb thanks to some more than probable showers during Monday and Tuesday. The good news is that the arrival of the weekend It will bring one “Notable temperature drops” (and some rains) throughout the peninsular north. That will be noted in the rest of the country. What will happen later? It is not very clear, but The spring of 2025 insisted in being different from the others, for now nothing suggests that autumn Go to follow that same path. Image | Aemet In Xataka | Aemet has been registering the hottest days in history since 1950. I had never detected as many as this August

The US has reached a dead end. To rearm to China’s threat, he needs the help of a nation: China

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What began Like a secret In the army he has jumped to the first flat of the nation: the pentagon has reacted afternoon and bad To the revolution of the drones. While Ukraine and Russia integrate at dizzying rhythm Cheap, disposable and effective platforms, and China You don’t know what to do With as many drones, Washington is entangled in procedures, inherited priorities and a culture of acquisitions that treats drones as “new airplanes” and not as low cost ammunition and mass production. In the background, a dead end: to anticipate the Chinese threat need … China. Revolution. The contemporary battlefield has been marked by a CStructural Ambio: Cheap, mass and disposable drones have become the decisive asymmetric weapon, capable of altering the balance of power between large and small powers. Ukraine, with one constant creativity And an incessant flow of adaptations, has shown that an army with limited resources can neutralize armored, strategic airplanes and russian logistics lines by swarms of short and medium reach drones. And delay. Meanwhile, the Pentagon, despite publicly recognizing the threat, maintains A dangerous delay. The statement of General James Mingus, who compared the current drones with the devastating impact of the improvised explosive artifacts in Iraq, Synthesizes the dilemma: This is the “FDE today”, a transformative weapon against which the United States has not yet reacted with the necessary urgency. Strategic blindness. They tell The analysts of the country that history is repeated. During the years of the insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan, thousands of soldiers died while the Department of Defense delayed the adoption of the Mrap vehiclesarmored designed for Resist FDIuntil the pressure of Robert Gates He broke the internal resistances. Today, the same pattern It is observed with drones. The rigid structure of the pentagon, obsessed with large programs as the F-35strategic submarines or The Sentinel missilesmarginalizes the cheap and fast solutions that make a difference in the field. There is talk of initiatives such as The Replicator program or of record budgets for research in autonomous weapons, but the reality is that, in front of the millions of drones that China could produce and the monthly thousands that Russia already displays, the United States barely has prototypes and promises. Presentation of Lucas, the Made in USA copy of the Shaheds, or almost The awkward mirror: the Shahed. We have gone counting. The weapon that best reflects that gap is The Shahed-136renamed Geran by Russia. Born as an Iranian clone of Israeli designs, it has become the most influential mercupy ammunition of the 21st century. With an approximate cost of $ 50,000, A autonomy of up to 1,600 kilometers and the ability to carry loads of 20 to 40 kilos, combines simplicity with strategic efficacy. In Russian hands, it already occurs at an industrial scale And it has been perfected with more range variants, better tight sensors and loads. Faced with the millions of cruise missile, Shahed is the pure expression of the war economy: cheap, abundant and devastating. The fact that the United States does not have an equivalent produced by mass constitutes a Strategic negligence symptom. The double error. On the one hand, the Pentagon has ignored the need to adopt massively short -range dronesof the FPV type, which in Ukraine have become the Common soldier weaponcapable of extending the scope of an infantry squad from 800 meters to more than 12 kilometers. On the other, it has dismissed for years the importance of long -range ammunition low costentrusting in expensive and limited missile arsenals. This double error points to a mentality anchored in past warsunable to accept that innovation does not reside in the exquisite, but in the numerous. The US army still does not have formations dedicated to drones, or new military specialties focused on them. The doctrine barely begins to adapt and pilot programs advance at a ridiculous speed compared to the rhythm of Ukrainian innovation. Russian Shaheds Factory China and recover lost time. The proposal of the most realistic analysts It is clear: United States needs, without delay, standardize Two drone designs long -range kamikaze. The first, about 1,600 km, cheap and massive, would serve both in Europe and in the First Pacific Islands chain. The second, more than 3,000 km, would be crucial to, for example, hit from the second island chain to the interior of China, even after the establishment of Bubble A2/AD. Both, complemented with variations in useful loads and guidance systems, would guarantee tactical flexibility and a deterrent volume. Without this capacity, the United States would enter any greater conflict with a ridiculously insufficient arsenal against tens of thousands of enemy threats. The logic of wear. The value of these weapons does not only reside in their destructive capacity. His strength lies in the economic equation: they force the adversary to spend millions in interceptors for each device which costs just tens of thousands. The “effector depletion” thus becomes a strategic weapon: saturate enemy defenses until their missile arsenals and force them to cover a spectrum of threats impossible to handle. Even a drone that never reaches its objective fulfills its function to the Force the enemy to shoot. Ukraine lo has demonstrated by forcing Russia to disperse anti -aircraft defenses against improvised swarms; The same logic, multiplied by tens of thousands of units, could turn the balance against China or Russia. The Chinese problem. The underlying problem is industrial disability. And here comes one of the paradoxes of the situation: the United States depends almost completely on the nation of which he intends to defend himself. And is that It depends on China for everythingfrom batteries to basic motors and materials. Its acquisition structure, designed for the slow rhythms of the cold war, is not prepared to produce quickly and decentralized. While the adversary itera versions in weeks, the Pentagon takes years to approve contracts. The solution: analysts aim to diversify production between dozens of medium and small companies, under a framework of standardized designs owned by the … Read more

I’ve been using Google Maps for years and I didn’t know this button. It is wonderful to follow routes on foot

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Although There are more and more optionsGoogle Maps is still The queen of navigation apps. But even the most used app, there are functions that not everyone knowsI the first. Today we talk about an option that makes Google Maps is much more intuitive on foot routes. Google Maps on foot is not the same as by car It is obvious, but the simple fact that the car moves faster makes it very easier to know what direction we have to go. When we use the routes on foot, sometimes the pointer does not move until we walk a considerable distance and, If we have confused ourselves, we will have to return to where we have come. I confess that it has happened to me many times. In addition, although generally the compass indicates the direction without having to move, but that lifts our hand who has not had problems with this. Many times the compass does not work well and It is necessary to calibrate it. With this function the headaches are over. The augmented reality to rescue 13 tricks to get the most out of Google Maps If you are going to follow a route on foot, Live View is your best ally. It is a function that uses augmented reality and indicates why we must continue in a much more visual and intuitive way. To activate it you just have to click on The camera button which appears on the icons on the right side of the screen. When you activate Live View for the first time, a notice like the one you can see on these lines appears and you will also have to accept the camera permits. Then he will ask you to notice with the camera to your surroundings to be able to “scan” the buildings and, once completed, you will see an arrow superimposed on the image which tells you where you should keep walking. Live View is a veteran function on Google Maps (arrived in 2019) and is available in all areas where we have the option to use Google Street View. However, it is not a super known option and, at least, it has turned out Very useful especially being traveling In new cities. In Xataka | A small town in Holland has the solution to mass tourism: to fool Google Maps

What iPhones arrives, how to prepare and how to update

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Today is the day, Today IOS 26 arrives at all compatible iPhone With this update. That is why you have to make a small review about everything you should keep in mind if you want to update. The update will be this afternoon, that is, it is convenient to have everything prepared for then. Let’s start by telling you What iPhone models will receive this update to iOS 26. Then, we will go on to give you a couple of advice on how to prepare to receive it, and we will end up with the simple steps you will have to do to update. What iPhone models update All compatible iPhone will receive iOS 26 at the same timeand this will include everyone from the iPhone 11. To get out of doubt, this is a list of mobile phones that will receive this version of the operating system: Four preparations before updating Before you start updating iOS 26, it should be given Four preparative steps To have everything prepared. They are essential things that you will need to take into account. Backup: You never know, there can always be something that goes wrong, and that is why it is always important to make a backup of your iPhone before updating in case you have to restore it. It doesn’t matter if you make the copy on the computer or in ICloud, the question is to have one made. Free space on your iPhone: An iOS update usually occupies at least 10 GB of storage on your mobile, sometimes more. Therefore, it is also important that if you are going to update you make sure you have enough free space on your mobile. Remember that you have a guide about How to release space on your phone. Have your mobile connected to a wifi: As we have told you before, this type of updates require a lot of data that you must download. Therefore, to increase the speed and not melt your mobile data rate, it is best to have your device at home connected to a Wi -Fi. Have your mobile with the battery loaded: When you are going to update, it is recommended that your battery be at least 50% of its load, so that you do not stay without it and there are undue interruptions in the process. To be, you can perform the update with the mobile connected to the current. How to update to iOS 26 For update iOS to your latest versionyou have to enter your iPhone settings. Inside, click on the section Generalwhich is where you will find many options related to the mobile. Once within the section General Of the adjustments, you will find a lot of options. Here, you have to click on the section Software update that will appear in the first block of options. You will go to a screen where your iPhone will automatically look for updates on Apple servers. In the event that hay, You can press down the option of Updateand this will lead you to the process where to start downloading and installation. In Xataka Basics | Liquid Glass, iOS 26, Macos Tahoe, Watchos 26, the new Games app and all the news left by Apple’s WWDC 2025

The generals in the Ukraine War have ceased to be human. There are drones giving drones before attacking

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The technological jump that is being given in the Ukraine War exceeds any forecast to a Unexpected speed. Of machines capturing and prisoners He went to drones attacking on your own In weeks. Now, these robots crews capable of coordinating on their own have a devastating weapon that makes them more unpredictable: an AI capable of generating military controls between algorithms, and several programs that multiply their scope. The jump of the swarms. Yes, the swarms of driven drones by artificial intelligence They are moving from promise to operational practice: software as Nemyx, from Auterionconverts compatible platforms into a coordinated force that maneuver, decides and attacks collectively to saturate defenses. In fact, United States will send 33,000 “attack kits” Updateable to Ukraine, a symptom that armies assume that intelligent volume (many cheap, connected and freelancer) can tip the balance on the battlefield. How they work. Actually, the key is not a “more capable” drone, but many drones that cooperate Like an organism: They share information, roles are distributed (one being the closest to a “general”), they reconfigure before interference and elude defenses with coordinated routes and attack times. Thus, a single operator controls multiple vectors, decision -making is automated at the tactical level and the resulting “precision mass” overwhelms radars, missiles and anti -aircraft artillery with whiter than they can manage. The Ukrainian ecosystem. Had the weekend The Financial Times than auterion has presented his “drone swarm strike engine” (Nemyx) as an app on his operating system to add drones to swarm with A simple updatewhile Helsing (next to Systematic) announces swarm capabilities directed by Ia. In parallel, Ukrainian companies Like Swarmer They claim to have intervened in 82,000 operations, with software that allows a group to approach Russian positions and choose autonomously The time to attack, materializing a trend initiated in 2016 with microdrones launched by F-18 and accelerated by Chinese demonstrations of great swarms since 2017. The Ukrainian advantage. Ukraine has A massive file operational video (including a classified base called Universal Military Dataset) that feeds models of autonomy and learning, an asset that its companies consider decisive. In addition, the opening of software and standards allows Integrate platforms In “weeks or days”, not in “months or years”, lowering the entrance barrier for diverse manufacturers and shortening the innovation cycle against adversaries. Ukrainian drone R18 Of the waves to learning. For his part, Russia It has improved Its effectiveness grouping long -range Shahed attacks, but that looks more like coordinated waves than a “intelligent” swarm. The new generation introduces Learning and coordination Distributed, eliminates the dependence of a single communications relay and allows each drone to adjust its behavior in real time, so saturation is not only quantitative but also tactically adaptive. Cust manufactures several drones of the Skvorets FPV family, some with a high degree of automation The Russian jump. Plus: Russia has announced An advance that could transform war with drones: thanks to the orbit systemdeveloped by the Cust consortium (a network of More than 200 startups That has broken with the slowness of the traditional defense industry), the FPV operators would no longer have to approach the front. Instead of risking artillery or kamikaze drones, they could control devices From hundreds of kilometerseven from Moscow, while first -line soldiers only briefly display drones from backpacks. Train an hour. The system uses artificial intelligence algorithms and neural networks for Identify, track and attack Objectives, making the operator more than a pilot. According to their designers, the necessary training passes four weeks to just an hour, a jump that is real democratizes the lethal piloting capacity. Technology would allow Russia to maintain its rhythm of massive drones (more than 30,000 delivered in 2024) at the same time that protects its most valuable staff, operators, considered even more important than tanquistas in the Ukrainian points system. Skvorets evolution. They remembered in Forbes that Cust has demonstrated industrial pragmatism: from the basic skvorets, with loads of 3 to 4 kilos and reach of more than 10 km, versions have emerged With thermal cameras, reusable recognition models, the Skvorets-Z variant with automatic objective block and the skvorets pro with such automated functions that it can be handled by a pilot without experience. They have even developed a Naval model launched From robotic vessels, which shows that the concept of remote control was already mature before orbit. In other words, if Orbita works as statedthe roles change: there will be no operators in improvised basements near the front, but in remote, invisible and untouchable control centers. Drones could be thrown by infantry soldiers, unmanned land vehicles or autonomous vessels, while the attack decision is validated from rear. Ethics and legality. Expanding the framework of all these advances, the power of all these systems tension the principle of significant human control. In the case of the Ukrainian side, European developers They underline that the operator maintains the authorization of whites and the supervision of lethality, in line with doctrines and limitations of international law, but the border between tactical automation and full autonomy It is blurred As the algorithms assume more flight decisions, objective allocation and attack synchronization. For its part, in the Russian case Orbit announces A future where “Bots on Earth” will replace the “Boots on Earth”, where FPV duels will be fought Between guided machines at a distance and not between nearby combatants. In an immediate horizon, the classic operator by handing a drone a few kilometers from the enemy might seem as obsolete and exposed as a cavalry rider in the middle of the battle of the 21st century. Image | National Guard of Ukraine/Twitter, TrydenceCust In Xataka | Machines capturing and prisoners were the preserve of science fiction. Until the war in Ukraine arrived In Xataka | Something unprecedented in Ukraine is happening: combat drones do not need humans to coordinate and attack

The best offers in Technology on Amazon today, September 15

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It starts a new week of September and we have already reached the Ecuador of the month. If you are thinking about renewing some of your technological devices, we show you a selection with the BEST CHOLLOS IN TECHNOLOGY that we have found on Amazon during today’s day, September 15. Notebook computer Huawei Matepad Pro by 519 euros: With 12.2 -inch OLED screen and 256 GB. Smartphone Xiaomi little C85 by 129.90 euros: 6.9 inches and with 50 MP chamber. Wi -Fi Mesh system CUDY AC1200 by 33.58 euros: With speeds of up to 867 MBP. PowerBank Magsafe Baseus Enerfill by 23.99 euros: 10,000 mAh and wireless load. Sound bar HS205G by 59 euros: 120 W and 2.0 channels Huawei Matepad Pro laptop In universities classes have not yet started, so you are in time to buy a new laptop to face the new course. This Huawei Mate Pad Pro It is now a bargain on Amazon. It has cost 808 euros to 519 euros Today at Amazon. He Huawei Mate Pad Pro It is a laptop stands out, above all, for its 12.2 -inch Tandem OLED screen With Papermatte technology. It comes with a 12 GB RAM and 256 GB of internal storage. Its battery admits fast charge at 100 W and works under the Harmonyos 4.2 operating system. Huawei Matepad Pro 12.2 inches The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links Smartphone Xiaomi Little C85 He Little C85 It is a cheap mobile released recently by the Chinese manufacturer. Now, at Amazon, you can take the 256 GB version by 129.90 euros In Amazon. One of its main assets is autonomy, since its battery has a capacity of 6,000 mAh. This little c85 rides a 6.9 inches screen with Full HD+ resolution and 120 Hz soda rate. His brain is the mediatek Helio G81 ultra processor. As for photography, its main camera is 50 MP. This terminal incorporates NFCDual Wifi, Bluetooth 5.4 and Radio FM. Xiaomi little C85 – 8+256GB smartphone The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links Mesh Cudy AC1200 Wi -Fi System Do you want to improve the Internet connection in your home? So thinking about a mesh or mesh wifi system is the best. In Amazon, you can now find the CUDY AC1200, which has a 44% discount And you can buy it for 33.58 euros. Thanks to this device Wifi mesh of the firm Cudy you will be able Eliminate all dead areas At home and enjoy good Internet connection. It offers speeds of up to 300 Mbps in 2.4 GHz and 867 Mbps in 5 GHz. It offers coverage for up to 100 devices. CUDY AC1200 Gigabit Full Malla Wifi System The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links PowerBank Magsafe Baseus Enerfill If one of your main fears is to run out of battery on your mobile while you are not at home, this Baseus Powebank It is an essential accessory for you. In Amazon, it is usually available for about 40 euros, but now you can buy it for 23.99 euros. This PowerBank It works with Apple Magsafe wireless technology. , although it also serves for Android mobiles. It has one 10,000 mAh capacity and the chip of the IA that integrates, controls the temperature, in order to offer you a safer load. Baseus Enerfill Magsafe Power Bank 10000mah 22.5W The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links HS205G HS205G sound bar If you want to ride your own home cinema, a sound bar will be the best accessory for your TV. In Amazon, you now have reduced from the firm Hisensewhich you can buy for 59 euros. This sound bar Cheap offers one 120 W power Through two channels. It also has wireless connection, so that you can transmit the content from your mobile, tablet or laptop. It is compatible with Dolby Audio and DTS Virtual X formats. HS205G – Sound bar 2.0, 120W The price could vary. We obtain commission for these links Some of the links of this article are affiliated and can report a benefit to Xataka. In case of non -availability, offers may vary. Images | Webedia, Hisense, Baseus, Cudy, Xiaomi and Huawei In Xataka | Better televisions in quality price: which to buy and 10 smart TV 4K recommended In Xataka | Best Bluetooth speakers. Which to buy and 10 recommended models

rival the iPhone 17

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In order to rival Apple in virtually any aspect that are proposed, Xiaomi has made the decision to skip completely The 16 series and directly launch the xiaomi 17, 17 pro and 17 pro max. The Chinese company wants to compete from you to you with the Manzan in the Premium segment and has decided that the best way to do it in the first place is to coincide in nomenclature with the iPhone 17. There is much at stake, and the Chinese giant wants to go with everything with his new family of devices. Even in the name. The president of Xiaomi, Lu Weibing, has confirmed In Weibo that “since the new range represents such an important generational jump, it made no sense to call it 16”. In addition, he has openly admitted that the decision to skip a generation is because they want to position their new flagships with the iPhone 17. “Apple continues to stand out, but we have a lot of confidence that we can face the challenge with products of the same generation,” said Weibing. Specifications that promise. According to The information That is known so far, the three models are expected to arrive equipped with the brand new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 of Qualcomm, which would turn Xiaomi into the first manufacturer to release this processor. The leaks also suggest that the standard model and the PRO will mount 6.3 -inch OLED screens with 2K resolution and ultrafine frames, while the Pro Max would extend up to 6.8 inches. In terms of battery, figures are speculated by the order of the 7,000 mAh for the base model, 6,300 mAh for the PRO (with wireless load) and up to 7,500 mAh for the Pro Max. However, we will have to wait for the official announcement until you check all these promising features first hand. The commitment to the Premium segment. This is not an impromptu decision. Xiaomi has been betting on a strategy of converting its main series into completely premium terminals, strongly investing in R&D to compete with the iPhone. As mentioned Bloombergin the first half of 2024, Xiaomi sales in the Premium segment (devices above $ 600) grew 55%. “10% of Xiaomi smartphones shipments in China exceeded $ 600 in the first semester of 2024, compared to practically nothing in 2019” Point out IDC analyst Bryan Ma. A strategic moment. The launch will arrive this month, anticipating the usual calendar of the company. According to They stand out In the middle, Apple currently controls 62% of sales in the Premium segment, according to Counterpoint Research, but Xiaomi has an opportunity in China, where The delay of the iPhone Air I could open a window. Founder Lei Jun has been clear: he wants his company “to be measured against Apple smartphones,” considered a reference for a good part of the market. In Xataka | After mobile phones, cars, robots and AI, the next great technological avalanche of China arrives: the glasses

‘Dungoons & Dragons’ lives an unprecedented success stage. And the reason is far from the origins of the game

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Many years ago that ‘Dungoons & Dragons’the legendary role of paper, pencil and dice (among other things) is not a marginal entertainment for rare people with little social life. Recall that in the eighties, the franchise already had an animation series, video games and supervantant books based on your Lore. But for a few years he has made a new leap of implantation in the mainstream. And it has been thanks to content creators and their overwhelming dissemination work of a hobby with millions of followers. A triumph that does not cease. ‘D & d’ has today More than 50 million players registered worldwide. Only in 202o, the sales of official products of ‘d & d’ grew 33% compared to the previous yearconsolidating seven consecutive years of double digit growth. In 2021, Wizards of the Coast entered more than one billion dollars, even when Hasbro, owner of the company, had spectacular losses that year. And that impact has set in a presence in more massive media than ever: one of Netflix’s greatest successes, ‘Stranger Things’, starts its mythology in the games, and its last season bases its argument around the game and “satanic panic“That in the eighties, it was partly linked to the role. One of the best -selling games of 2023 was’ Baldur’s Gate III ‘. And also in 2023, the first adaptation of the game in a long time to the big screen,’Honor between thieves‘, He resulted in a respectable box office of 208 million dollars. The usual success. To understand us, ‘D&D’ has always been a successful game: I remember how in the eighties there were already stores dedicated to role -playing games in Murcia. And believe me: If someone in Murcia considered in the eighties that it was worth dedicating a trade to the subject, there was a considerable potential audience. But the truth is that a unique rebirth has lived in recent times, and is not a product of a traditional marketing campaign: it is the result of a unique convergence between the natural evolution of the game, the massification of digital platforms and the appearance of content creators who have transformed private games into shared experiences. The turning point. Just at the same time that the first content of ‘D&D’ content appeared, in the edition of the game itself another revolution took place: the launch of the fifth edition in 2014 represented much more than a simple rules update. It was a strategic restart that laid the foundations for the digital phenomenon that was to come: an unprecedented redesign process that would last two years and that was revolutionary for its collaborative approach. An open “Playtest” process not only democratized development, but also established a crucial precedent: extending the idea of ​​the community as co-creator, which again settled the foundations for this new way of living the game that shaped the programs. In addition, the mechanics were drastically simplified: where the previous editions required to consult multiple complex tables and modifiers, the fifth edition adopted a unified system based on the 20 -sides dice that was consistently applied to everything that happened in the game. The fifth edition prioritized the narrative on the simulation: field paid for content creators where the basics is to tell a story, and the simplified rules thus expedite the videos. In addition, Wizard of the Coast launched the “Basic Rules” completely free: A free access PDF containing complete rules to start immediately to play. The first wave. The first of these content programs linked to real items (current play in the codes that classify these videos) was Critical role: In 2012, a group of American dubbing actors played ‘D&D’ on Twitch to have fun at home, and over time it has become a media empire with an animated series in Prime Video that already has three seasons, official books published by the same Wizards of the Coast that edit the role game, and a global audience of more than 10 million subscribers. But Critical Role is just the tip of the iceberg of a much broader and more diverse ecosystem. Soon others followed as The Adventure Zone (in podcast format) or Candela darkthat revealed how fun it is to invent stories with friends. A very studied timing. The launch of the fifth edition coincided with a point of effervescence of the streaming platforms: Twitch was acquired by Amazon just a month after the launch of the rules, YouTube improved its tools for creators and Discord would arrive very soon, in 2015. In addition, an open license was implemented and, later, a reference system of Dungeons & Dragons. These tools explicitly allowed content creators, application developers and media producers create derived content without fear of legal problems. The scene grows. Since then, they have not stopped being born channels that spread role games. There are those that have exceeded Critical Role, such as Dimension 20that already do live shows in the Madison Square Garden and that stand out for their absence of prejudices by introducing elements of genres and franchises that go beyond the classic ‘D&D’. And also in Spanish this type of content has grown a lot: Streamers such as Orslokx, Elrubius or Alexby11 introduced in their usual programs of D%D, those who have followed channels as Lynx’s such, The dragon mansion, Within says either Churros & Dragons among many others. It is ironic and significant that a completely analog game system has found its main fame springboard today through technology. If it demonstrates something, it is that ‘Dungoons & Dragons’ is one of the most universal and versatile games that exist. And that, without a doubt, we will continue to see it evolve. Header | Timothy Dykes in Unspash In Xataka | ‘Magic’ is reborn in popularity and there is a reason: franchises and multiverse have flooded the game

Alibaba has just demonstrated that Openai spends 78 million to do the same as them for $ 500,000

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There is a new star technique to train AI models super efficiently. It is at least what Alibaba seems to have demonstrated, that Friday presented His family of QWEN3-next models and did so presuming from spectacular efficiency that even Leave behind the one he achieved Deepseek R1. What happened. Alibaba Cloud, the Alibaba group’s cloud infrastructure division, presented a new generation of LLMS on Friday that described as “the future of efficient LLMs.” According to those responsible, these new models are 13 times smaller than the largest model that that company has launched, and that was presented just a week earlier. You can try QWen3-Next On the Alibaba website (Remember to choose it from the drop -down menu, in the upper left). QWen3-Next. This is what the models of this family are called, among which it stands out especially QWen3-Next-80b-A3Bwhich according to developers is up to 10 times faster than the QWEN3-32B model that was launched in April. The really remarkable thing is that it also manages to be much faster with a 90% reduction in training costs. $ 500,000 is nothing. According to AI Index Report From Stanford University, to train GPT-4 OpenAI invested $ 78 million in computation. Google was further spent on Gemini Ultra, and according to that study the figure amounted to 191 million dollars. It is estimated that QWEN3-Next has only cost $ 500,000 in that training phase. Better than its competitors. According to the benchmarks made By the artificial firm Analysis, QWen3-Next-80B-A3B has managed to overcome both the latest version of Deepseek R1 and Kimi-K2. Alibaba’s new reasoning model is not the best in global terms-GPT-5, Grok 4, Gemini 2.5 Pro Claude 4.1 Opus overcome it-but still achieves outstanding performance taking into account its training cost. How have you done it? Mixture of experts. These models make use of the Mixture of Expert architecture (MOE). With it, the model is “divided” into a kind of neuronal subnets that are the “experts” specialized in data subsets. Alibaba in this case increased the number of “experts”: while Depseek-V3 and Kimi-K2 make use of 256 and 384 experts, QWen3-Next-80b-A3B makes use of 512 experts, but only activates 10 at the same time. Hybrid attention. The key to that efficiency is in the so -called hybrid attention. Current models usually see their efficiency reduced if the input length is very long and have to “pay more attention” and that implies more computing. In Qwen3-Next-80b-A3B, a technique called “Gated Deltanet” is used that They developed and shared MIT and NVIDIA in March. GATED DELTANET. This technique improves the way in which the models pay attention when making certain adjustments to the input data. The technique determines what information retain and which can be discarded. That allows creating a precise and super -efficient cost mechanism. In fact, QWEN3-Next-80B-A3B is comparable to the most powerful Alibaba model, Qwern3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507. Efficient and small models. The growing costs of training new models of AI begin to be worrisome, and that has made more and more efforts to create “small” language models that are cheaper to train, are more specialized and especially efficient. Last month Tencent presented models below 7,000 million parameters, and another startup called Z.AI published its GLM-4.5 Air model with only 12,000 million active parameters. Meanwhile, large models such as GPT-5 or Claude use many more parameters, which makes the necessary computation to use them much greater. In Xataka | If the question is which of the great technology is winning the AI ​​career, the answer is: None

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